Two former Iowa State men’s basketball assistants are at the heart of recruiting violations committed by the program, the Ames Tribune reported.

Keith “Lefty” Moore and Daniyal Robinson both had improper contact with recruits, with Moore being the trigger for the 2011 investigation after coach Fred Hoiberg saw Moore at an AAU game he was not allowed to attend.

Once Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg saw one of his assistants at an AAU game he shouldn't have been at, he told his boss the same night. (AP Photo)

The ISU investigation found Moore to have made 160 impermissible text messages and 12 impermissible phone calls to five prospects he had coached at All Iowa Attack before joining Hoiberg’s staff in Aug. 2010.

ISU’s report said Moore noted that he received NCAA rules education that he could not recruit those prospects to Iowa State, but did not consider his contact as recruiting “because his communication with them was related to their nonscholastic team.”

In all, six current and former coaches in football and men’s basketball were named, and the school agreed with the NCAA that its findings “constitute a major infractions case.” Each of them face a potential show-cause penalty, the Tribune reported, though Moore wouldn't have to worry about any penalty unless he were to get back into college coaching. Currently, he is again coaching the All Iowa Attack AAU team.

Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel received a five-year show cause penalty for his role in the school’s cash-for-tattoos scandal.

"We've been committed to being as transparent as possible throughout this entire process, which has been challenging given it has been an ongoing investigation and we did not receive the final report until this week," Jamie Pollard, the Iowa State athletic director, said in a statement.

Hoiberg informed Pollard about Moore’s attendance at the AAU game the night of his sighting, and Moore was fired in the next 24 hours.

In all, Iowa State’s investigation of a three-year window found 158 impermissible calls, with 118 of those part of a failure to properly log messages and non-contact calls to recruits, the Tribune reported.

Robinson, an assistant under former ISU coach Greg McDermott who now coaches at Houston, was found to have made 21 of those "culpable" phone calls.

The university has asked the NCAA to accept its findings and issue a punishment of two years of probation, retroactive to November of 2011.

The school said that it has already self-imposed numerous penalties. Each of its teams forfeited a week of recruiting calls, and the school will spend $82,000 over the next three years in compliance and recruiting software to simplify the recording and monitoring of calls and text messages.

The Cyclones also said they've already taken a wide range of punitive actions against each of the coaches named in the report.

The university hired The Compliance Group, based in Lanexa, Kan., to assist in the investigation. Records released to The Associated Press on Wednesday show the firm billed the school more than $30,000 for its services.

This is the second major infractions case Iowa State has been involved with. In 1986, the Cyclones were put on two years of probation because of violations within the football program.